any other way besides a mic to record?

[yapee]

wow the logitech mic's pretty good i think i'll buy one and test it out first before i buy a usb mic again thank you

[kozikowski]

That Logitech is a USB microphone. It's plugged into the USB socket of my Mac.

I make it look really easy, but that conference room is dead quiet and has no echoes. I've recorded several very nice tracks in there. We have done some television interviews in that room and they all sound terrific.

That's unusual. Most people have to deal with traffic noises, refrigerator pumps and noisy air conditioning. You don't realize how bad it is until you try to make a quiet recording. "What? Oh, that's the neighbor's dog." One of the people who works here puts quilts in his closet and records in there.

I've been known to use furniture moving pads.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/pix/BoothInUse.jpg

That's over and above the microphone itself making noise. If there's only a little bit, you can get rid of it in Audacity 1.3.12.

Before.
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/3013Test2.wav

After.
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/3013Test3.wav

You can't get rid of most apartment noises: traffic, dogs, TV sets, radios, or voices in post production.

Koz

[yapee]

thanks for the tips i'll post again some time soon when i start recording

[yapee]

is it advisable to record in the bathroom?

[steve]

is it advisable to record in the bathroom?

Usually no. Bathrooms tend to be very echoey (reverberant). It is easy to add reverberation ("reverb", "delay" or "echo" effects) to a recording. It's almost impossible to remove unwanted echoes / reverberation. For this reason recordings are usually made "dry" (lots of soft furnishings and sound absorbent materials to cut down echoes to a minimum), then add artificial reverb later if required.

Having said that, on some occasions you may want to record somewhere that is very bright and echoey. There's a lot of excellent classical music recordings that have been made in big echoey cathedrals, and for cathedral organs the echoes of the cathedral is considered to be an essential feature of the sound.

[yapee]

my friend says so too well thank you guys for everything